The Crisis at Google

&gt; the company’s Trust and Safety leadership called for volunteers to test Gemini’s outputs to prevent further blunders.<p>How humiliating, for a company that doesn&#x27;t want to do anything that doesn&#x27;t scale.

Google is a sham but let&#x27;s not pretend like they give a shit. They don&#x27;t have to innovate. They print ad money. Do you think morale at Meta was good when Zuckerberg was trying to hawk metaverse for years like a shitty tamale vendor? When FB became a global laughingstock? Sure it was!<p>Do you think the board cares! NO. Because they PRINT MONEY.

Nothing in this article really that hasn&#x27;t been said clearly in 3 or 4 major pieces in the last month or so.<p><i>There are growing calls for Google CEO Sundar Pichai to step down</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39568016">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39568016</a><p><i>Google&#x27;s once happy offices feel the chill of layoffs</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39260956">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39260956</a><p><i>A Leaked Memo from Google CEO Sundar Pichai Comes Amidst Employee Discontent</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39125467">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39125467</a><p><i>Google employees blast &#x27;profoundly boring&#x27; management lacking &#x27;visionary leader&#x27;</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39101384">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39101384</a><p>(plus the whole Gemini thing)

Sundar needs to go, period. All these articles undersell how bad the morale is at Google right now. It has been unpopular change after unpopular change, and Googlers have zero trust in the leadership. There&#x27;s zero psychological safety anymore, and the environment is basically like this[1], but actually worse because even the &quot;sister&quot; teams in the same org are being very territorial.<p>I don&#x27;t think the next person is going to be better (because they&#x27;ll be appointed by the very same board), but Google needs a change at the top.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.globalnerdy.com&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2011&#x2F;07&#x2F;microsoft-org-chart.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.globalnerdy.com&#x2F;wordpress&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;201...</a>

&gt; &quot;Organizationally at this place, it&#x27;s impossible to navigate and understand who&#x27;s in rooms and who owns things,” one member of Google’s Trust and Safety team told me. “Maybe that&#x27;s by design so that nobody can ever get in trouble for failure.”

Google has monopoly market search in search, web browsers and mobile.<p>They have access to more data than anyone else, so I&#x27;ll put my bet on them to win the AI wars.<p>First you need the data, then the money, then the power.

related from yesterday <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39573851">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=39573851</a><p>I think Pichai was a terrible CEO, but IMHO, changing the CEO is not going to fix anything. Google has serious culture issues and structural management problems. To turn the ship around they should restructure hard and get rid of the cancer. Re-focus on merit and clear goals.<p>I seriously doubt they have the guts to do a restructuring. On one hand, Page and Brin probably don&#x27;t want to risk rocking the boat and they have the lions share of voting shares. On the other hand, advertisers and government agencies have a lot of leverage over Google to force it to stay as woke as it is.

A small side note: actually there was very few blacks in the nazi army. So aside to the polemics it&#x27;s worth to know this &quot;error&quot; was not so erroneous. Nazis have had black in their armies and have also had a Hebrew SS brigade.

Having recently experienced an interview at Google, I feel scadenfreude.<p>Their interviewers stood me up twice. And then, when I didn&#x27;t pass the coding round, the HR reps I initially spoke with completely ignored me and passed me off to some other HR rep who said basically, &quot;Sorry, they&#x27;re busy. Thanks, goodbye.&quot;<p>Not the level of professionalism I expected.<p>scha·den·freu·de<p>pleasure derived by someone from another person&#x27;s misfortune.